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Philippe Karsenty, a French Jewish politician, has appealed to France’s supreme court against his conviction of defamation for accusing a television channel of doctoring a video allegedly showing the death of a Palestinian boy.

(JTA) — Claims that Israeli troops in 2000 killed the Palestinian boy Mohammed al-Dura are “baseless,” an Israeli government committee concluded. The panel of experts made the statement in its 36-page report presented Sunday — Israel’s most comprehensive official response to a disputed video shot by a French television station. According to the report, “there… More ▸